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What was he thinking?
I'm at Supercomputing 2009 this week. The conference this year has three thrust areas: sustainability/energy efficiency, bio-computing, and "3D Internet", whatever that is. (I do graphics and visualization research. You'd think I would have heard of it.) Each day we have a different keynote speaker. Tomorrow morning is Leroy Hood, a ( Read more... ) -
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?
From an article about a clampdown on women's gyms in Saudia Arabia:
"Football and basketball are sports that require a lot of movement and jumping," Sheikh Abdullah al-Maneea, member of the official Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, said in a religious opinion published in Okaz newspaper Thursday ( Read more... ) -
Hippo Birdie!
Happy denyses day!
It was great to see you again over the weekend. Sir is no doubt plotting world domination as we speak. Hopefully, now that we've been introduced, he'll consider me for a ministry of something interesting.
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The things my brain comes up with...
I've had various songs from Cats running through my head all afternoon. I started thinking about the stage show. From somewhere in the back of my mind comes the following:
You really ought to cast David Bowie as the Rum Tum Tugger, especially if you could get him in his Goblin King costume.
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The ritual of Afternoon Tea
I took a long weekend last week and went to Boston to visit dawntreader42 and another old friend from college. It was one of the best trips I've taken in recent years despite the insane decision to take it two weeks before a major paper deadline. Maybe because of it.
Among other happy occurrences, we had some of the best food I can remember.
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Longing for Z
I am heartily sick of laying awake for hours every night no matter how tired I may be in mind or body. -
I've been busy
There's a stretch of about two years recently during which I didn't fold very much: a couple of mobiles for distant friends, one tessellation and a few cranes, that's it. Then there's this past month. Don't ask me what changed; I have no idea. One way or another, I offer the latest fruits of my obsession.
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Show and tell
It's been a long time since I've made one of these. However, for the two of you who haven't yet heard me babbling about it:
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Overheard in today's meetings
"I'd like to find out what the mechanics and the politics are of including ${library1} in ${library2}'s source distribution ( Read more... ) -
A long overdue vacation
I'm in the hills to the east of Santa Fe at a Japanese spa called Ten Thousand Waves. Maybe it sounds slightly incongruous to have a Japanese spa in the high mountains of New Mexico but I find that the two aesthetics mesh very well together, especially given the wooded hills (mountains?) and the clear, dark sky. This is one of the places where I ( Read more... )
